✍ Scribed by Philip Davis (eds.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Poets, novelists and critics committed to creative thinking join together in this collection of essays to say what serious reading really means to them as individuals. The collection is divided into four sections: George Steiner and George Craig on the act of reading in general; Joseph Brodsky, Les Murray, Douglas Oliver and Hester Jones on reading, poetry and vision; John Bayley, Philip Davis and Gabriel Josipovici on reading and teaching in the universities; Raymond Tallis, Michael Irwin, Josie Billington and Doris Lessing on reading and the novel.
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
‘Critic’/‘Reader’....Pages 3-37
So Little Do We Know of What Goes On When We Read....Pages 38-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Two Essays at Human Assemblies....Pages 61-76
Trances....Pages 77-82
Poetry’s Subject....Pages 83-102
Triumphant Obstination: Reading Adrienne Rich and Elizabeth Bowen....Pages 103-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Reading about Things: or Hannibal Goes for the Mail....Pages 125-136
Micro and Macro....Pages 137-164
Thirty-Three Variations on a Theme of Graham Greene....Pages 165-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Theorrhoea Contra Realism....Pages 175-204
Readings of Realism....Pages 205-223
Watching a Writer Write: Manuscript Revisions in Mrs Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters and Why They Matter....Pages 224-235
‘Green Glass Beads’....Pages 236-244
Twentieth-Century Literature; Literature, general
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